Mud, rain, wind, and cold couldn’t stop the kids of the Way-Out-West 4-H club from visiting our new geothermal heated greenhouse on Sunday, March 14th. As you can see, we even had flooding in the greenhouse from all the rain! Once the outside dirtwork is finished flooding won’t be such an issue. The kids learned […]
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As we continue (hopefully) to recover from the crazy year of 2020 and wrap up planting for 2021 we need to wrap up a few details for crop insurance. With the dramatically higher prices this year, the value of our crops is much higher, and you need to decide on how to protect these much
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In true RMA fashion, another new program has been released. The Pandemic Cover Crop Program (PCCP) will provide a $5 per acre discount on your spring crop insurance premium for cover crops planted for the 2021 crop year. Producers will need to certify your cover crops by June 15th with FSA, this is the standard certification date
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WONDERING WHAT TO DO ABOUT THE RISING COST OF FERTILIZER? WE’VE GOT A SOLUTION.👇 From Richard’s desk: While the environmental problems associated with the use of nitrogen fertilizer have been recognized for a long time, the economic value of nitrogen fertilizer has never been questioned. However, over the past few months there has
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WHAT’S THE BEST SOLUTION FOR NITROGEN MANAGEMENT CHALLENGES? From Richard’s desk: As I mentioned in my last nitrogen blog, for various reasons nitrogen is a difficult nutrient to precisely manage. Crop available nitrogen or nitrates are mobile nutrients that do not attach to soil particles. Because nitrates are soluble, any time water moves
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If you weren’t able to attend our annual meeting, watch the replay of Ben Buckner’s presentation. Ben is a Grain Markets Specialist at AgResource. Video Transcript: Hello, Midplains. This is Ben Buckner with AgResource company in Chicago. It is always such a pleasure to be a part of your annual meeting, at least
AGRESOURCE: “AG MARKET VOLATILITY; THE RISING IMPORTANCE OF FOOD; A NEW ERA?” Read More »
Video Transcript: Three hundred bushel corn and 70 bushel beans. The beans are on the back page, okay. And this was a no rent. This is just your inputs. So you can go across there and you can put your own cost in there. I did this and I’ve been passing these out.
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Video Transcript: All right. Let’s see. See if we got this whole thing working here. All right. Awesome. So as Rich mentioned, I’m Jackson Stansell. I just founded Sentinel Fertigation to commercialize some of the work that we’ve been doing at UNL in cooperation with Rich. His operation over the past three years, this
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Have you ever wondered why nitrogen is so hard to manage? As you can see in the nitrogen cycle diagram below, the nitrogen that is available to plants is affected by many factors including weather and soils. These factors are complicated, and many are beyond the control of the farmer. To control the uncertainty created
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